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Leaf galls. This is a list of insect galls arranged into families. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2023) Coleoptera Beetles
To form galls, the insects must take advantage of the time when plant cell division occurs quickly: the growing season, usually spring in temperate climates, but which is extended in the tropics. The meristems , where plant cell division occurs, are the usual sites of galls, though insect galls can be found on other parts of the plant, such as ...
The induced galls are shared with a community of insects including transient occupants, opportunistic foragers, parasitoids, inquilines, and parasitoids of inquilines. [2] These galls are divided into microscale niches allowing for the coexistence of ecologically similar species that exploit similar feeding strategies.
Galls are growth deformities induced in certain plants by various insects which are mostly species-specific. Galls induced by insects can be viewed as an extended phenotype of the inducing insect, and gall-inducing insects specialize on their host plants, often to a greater extent than insects that feed on the same plant without creating galls. [2]
Gall-inducing insects (359 P) O. ... Willow galls (74 P) Pages in category "Galls" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. ... Wikipedia® is a ...
Rhopalomyia solidaginis, the goldenrod bunch gall, is a species of gall midges, insects in the family Cecidomyiidae. The galls of this species have the following host species of goldenrods: Solidago altissima, Solidago canadensis, and Solidago rugosa. They have been found across eastern North America.
Pemphigus spyrothecae, or the poplar spiral gall aphid, is a social insect which exhibits apparent altruistic behaviors. The aphids form galls and act as colony defenders, at times sacrificing their own lives to do so.
The host plant reacts by producing extra cells and the affected areas becomes swollen and rolls downwards and encloses the wax covered nymphs. Each gall may contain two or three generations and by the end of summer contain all stages of the insect. [1] The galls are pale-coloured with violet or red markings. [2]